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REY.
DR.
TALMAGE
TEMPTATIONS
BESETTING-
YOTJNGr
MEN.
\Tie
Sunday
Sermon
as
Delivered,
b
y
the
Brooklyn
Divine.
Text:
\Surelu
in,
vain
the
net
is
spreaa
.inthc
sight
of
any
bird.\
—Proverbs
i.,
17.
I
Early
in
the
morning
I
went
out
with
a
fowler
to
catch
wild
pigeons.
We
haste
nod
•through
the
mountain
gorge
and
into
the
forest.
\We
spread
out
tho
net,
and
covered
<ip
the
edges
of
it
as
well
as
wo
could.
W
e
arranged
tho
call
bird,
its
feet
fast
and
ita
wings
flapping,
in
invitation
to
all
fowls
of
heaven
to
settle
down
there.
We
rotirod
into
a
booth
of
branches
and
leaves
and
waited.
After
awhile,
looking
out
of
tho
door
of
tho
booth,
we
saw
a
flock
of
birds
in
the
sky.
Tboy
enmo
nearer
and
nearer,
and
after
a
•while
were
about
t
o
swoop
into
the
net,
when
suddenly
tlioy
darted
away.
Again
we
waited.
After
awhile
we
saw
another
flock
of
birds.
They
came
nearer
and
nearer
un­
til
just
at
tho
moment
when
they
woro
about
to
swoop
they
darted
away
The
fowler
was
very
much
disappointed
as
well
as
myself.
Wo
said
to
each
other,
\Wha
t
is
the
matter?\
and
\Why
were
not
these
birds
caught?\
We
wont
out
and
ex­
amined
the
net
and
by
a
flutter
of
a
branch
of
a
tree
part
of
tho
not
had
been
conspicu­
ously
exposed,
and
tho
birds
foming
very
near
had
seen
their
peril
and
darted
away.
When
I
saw
that
I
said
to
the
old
fowler,
•\That
reminds
me
of
a
passage
of
Scripture:
'Surely
in
vain
is
tho
not
spread
in
the
sight
of
any
bird.'\
Now
the
net
in
m
y
text
stands
for
temptation.
Tho
call
bird
of
sin
tempts
men
on
from
point
to
point
and
from
branch
to
branch
until
they
are
about
to
drop
into
tho
net.
If
a
man
Dnds
out
in
time
that
it
is
tho
temptation
of
tho
devil,
or
that
evil
men
are
attempting
to
capture
his
soul
for
timo
ond
for
eternity,
tho
man
steps
back.
H
e
suys.
\1
am
not
t
o
bo
caught
in
that
way;
I
see
what
you
are
about;
surely
in
vaiu
is
the
net
spread
in
the
sight
of
any
bird
\
There
are
two
classes
of
temptations—the
OTperflcial
and
the
subterraneous—those
above,
ground,
those
underground.
I
f
a
man
could
see
sin
as
it
is,
ho
would
no
moro
om-
braco
it
than
he
would
embrace
a
lepsr
Sin
is
a
daughter
of
hell,
ye
t
she
is
gar­
landed
and
robed
and
trinketed.
Her
voico
is
a
wnrble.
Her
cheek
is
the
setting
sun
Her
forehead
is
an
aurora
Sho
says
to
tnen:
\Come
wnllc
this
path
with
me.
It
is
thymed
and
primroscd,
and
the
air
is
be-
witchol
with
tho
odors
of
the
hanging
gar­
dens
of
huaveu.
Tuo
rivers
aro
riveri
of
wine,
and
all
you
have
to
do
is
t
o
drink
them
up
in
chalices
that
sparkle
with
dia­
mond
and
amethyst
and
chrysoprasus.
Seo'
I
t
is
all
bloum
aud
rosate
cloud
and
heaven.\
Oh,
m
y
friend*,
if
for
one
moment
the
choiring
of
nil
these
concerted
voices
of
sin
could
he
hushed,
we
should
see
the
orchestra
ot
the
pit
with
hot
breath
blowing
through
fiery
flute,
and
tho
skeleton
arms
on
drums
of
tiiunder
and
darkness
boating
the
chorus,
\Tho
end
thereof
is
death.\
I
want
to
point
out
the
insidious
tempta­
tions
that
uiv
assailing
moro
especially
our
young
men.
The
only
kind
ot
nature
com­
paratively
free
from
temptatioD,
so
far
as
I
enn
judge,
is
tin*
cold,
hard,
stingy,
mean
tempi
raiucut.
\\
hat
would
Satan
do
with
such
a
muii
if
he
got
him?
Satan
is
not
anx­
ious
to
get
a
man
who
after
awhile
may
dis­
pute
with
him
the
realm
of
everlusting
meanness.
It
is
tho
generous
young
man,
tho
ardent
young
man.
the
warm
hearted
young
ninn,
%bc
social
young
man
that
is
in
especial
peril.
A
pirate
goes
out
on
tho
sea,
and
one
bright
morning
he
puts
the
glass
to
his
eyo
ana
looks
oir,
and
sees
an
onipty
vessel
float­
ing
from
port
to
port.
Ho
says,
\Never
mind,
that's
no
prize
for
us.\
But
the
samo
morning
ho
puts
tho
glass
to
his
oye,
and
he
sees
a
vessel
coming
from
Australia
lailon
-with
gold,
or
a
vessel
from
tho
Indies
lailon
with
spices.
He
says,
\That's
our
prize,
bear
down
on
it
I\
Across
that
unfortunate
Ehip
tho
grappling
hooks
aro
thrown.
Tho
crow
are
blindfolded
and
are
compollcd
to
walk
the
piank
it
s
not
tho
empty
vessel,
but
the
laden
•merchantman
tl.at
is
the
temptati
m
of
tho
pirate.
And
a
young
mnu
einpty
of
head,
empty
of
heart,
empty
of
life—
y«»u
want
no
Youn
g
Men's
Christian
Association
to
keep
bim
safo
ho
is
safe.
H
o
w
.ll
not
gamlilo
unless
it
is
with
somebody
clso's
stakes.
Ho
will
not
Lrcak
tho
Sabbath
unless
somoho
ly
else
pays
the
horse
hire.
He
\\
ill
not
drink
un­
less
somo
one
elso
treats
htm.
Ho
will
hang
arouud
tho
bar
hour
after
hour
waiting
for
some
gonerous
young
man
to
como
in
Ttio
generous
young
man
comes
in
and
accosts
him
ond
says,
\Well
will
you
have
a
drink
with
mo
to-daj
'-\
The
man.as
though
it
were
a
sudden
thing
for
him,
says,
'
Well
—well,
if
you
insist
on
it,
I
will—I
will.\
Too
mean
to
go
to
porditiou
unless
some­
body
else
pays
Ins
expense*?
For
such
young
men
w
o
will
not
light.
We
would
no
more
contend
for
them
than
Tartar}'
and
Ethiopia
would
fight
as
to
who
should
uavo
the
great
Sahara
desert,
but
for
those
young
men
who
aro
buoyant
and
enthusiastic,
those
who
are
determined
to
do
something
for
time
and
for
eternity—for
them
wo
will
fight,
and
wo
now
deciare
everlasting
war
against
all
the
influences
that
assail
tho:n,
and
we
ask
all
goo
I
men
and
philanthropists
to
wheel
into
lino,
and
all
tho
armies
of
heaven
to
bear
down
upon
the
foe,
and
wo
pi-ay
Almighty
God
that
with
tho
thunder­
bolts
of
Ills
wrath
Ho
will
strike
down
an
I
consume
all
these
influences
that
aro
attempt­
ing
to
destroy
the
youug
men
for
whom
Christ
died.
The
first
cla?s
of
temptations
that
assaults
»young
man
is
Jed
on
by
the
skeptic.
H9
A
'lll
not
admit
that
he
is
an
infidel
or
athe­
ist.
Oh,
no!
lie
is
a
\free
thinker
-
\
he
is
ono
jf
your
\iiuura.\
mon;
ho
is
freo
and
easy
In
religion
Oh.
how
lilieral
he
is,
ho
is
so
\liberal\
that
ho
will
give
away
his
Bible;
ho
is
so
\liberal\
tha
t
ho
will
give
away
the
throne
of
eternal
justice,
he
is
so
\liberal\
that
ho
would
l«
willing
to
give
God
out
of
!iie
universe,
hois
so
\liberal\
that
ho
would
jive
up
his
own
soul
ond
tho
souls
of
all
his
friends.
Now
what
more
could
you
ask
in
tho
way
of
liberality?
1
ho
victim
of
this
skeptic
has
probably
just
co.no
from
ti
o
country.
Through
tho
intervention
of
friends
l
c
litis
been
placed
in
a
shop.
On
Saturday
the
skeptic
says
to
him,
\Well
wnat
are
ynu
going
to
do
to-mor­
row?'
Ho
says,
\1
am
going
to
church.\
\Is
it
possible?\
says
tho
skoplic.
\Well
I
asiM
to
do
those
things,
I
was
brought
up,
I
suppose,
as
you
were,
m
a
religious
family,
and
I
believd
all
those
things,
but
I
got
over
it.
the
fact
is,
sinco
I
came
to
town
I
have
read
a
great
den',
and
I
have
found
that
thu-o
are
a
gr
--at
many
things
in
tho
Bible
that
are
r.d.culous.
Now,
for
in­
stance,
all
that
about
tho
serpent
being
cursed
to
cr
.iwl
in
tho
Garden
of
Eden
be­
cause
it
had
tempted
our
first
parents,
why,
you
see
how
nbsunl
it
i3,
you
can
tell
from
the
very
organization
of
tho
serpent
that
it
tad
to
crawl,
it
crawled
before
it
wascursod
just
as
well
as
i
t
crawled
afterward;
you
can
tell
from
its
organization
that
it
•crawled
Then
all
that
story
about
the
wbalo
swallowing
Jonah,
or
Jonah
swal­
lowing
tho
whale,
which
was
it?
I
t
don
't
make
any
difference,
the
thing
is
absurd;
it
is
ridiculouB
to
suppose
that
a
man
could
nave
gono
down
through
tno
jaws
of
a
sea
monster
and
yot
keep
his
life;
why,
his
res­
piration
would
have
been
hindered;
ho
would
have
been
digested,
the
gastric
juicj
would
havo
dissolved
tho
flbrine
and
coagu
lated
albumen,
and
Jonah
would
havo
beer
changed
from
prophet
into
chyle.
Then
all
that
story
about
tho
micraculous
conception
—why,
it
is
perfectly
disCTacef
ul
Oh,
sir'
I
believe
in
the
light
of
nature.
This
is
the
Nineteenth
century
Progress,
sir,
progress.
I
don
't
blame
you,\
but
after
you
have
been
i
n
town
as
tongas
1
havo
you
will
think
jest
•as
I
do.\
Thousands
of
young
men
nro
going
down
under
that
pro*»«v,x
d>iy
bv
day.
and
th^ro
is
•only
here
and
tliwe
n
vounr
man
who
ctn
endure
this
artillery
of
scorn.
They
nro
giv­
ing
up
their
Bible,.
Tho
lirht
of
nature
Tney
Uavo
tho
light
ot
nature
in
Cliina;
they
havo
it
in
Hindostan;
they
havo
it
in
Cey­
lon.
Flowers
there,
stars
there,
waters
there,
winds
there,
but
no
civilization,
no
homes,
-no
happiness.
Lancets
t
o
cut
ond
jugger
­
nauts
to
fall
under
and
hooks
to
swing
on,
but
no
happiness.
I
tell
you,
my
young
brother,
wo
have
to
take
a
religion
or
some
kind.
We
have
to
choose
between
four
and
five.
Shall
it
be
tho
Koran
of
the
Mohammedan,
or
tho
Shos-
•tcr
of
tho
Hindoo.
o*r
tho
Zendavesta
of
tho
rorsian,
or
tho
Confucius
writings
of
tho
'Chinese,
or
tho
Holy
Scripturos?
Tnko
what
you
will:
God
helping
me,
I
will
take
the
Bible.
Light
for
all
darkness;
rock
for
all
'foundation,
balm
for
all\
wounds.
A
glory
•
that
lifts
its
pillars
of
Are
over
tho
wilder­
ness
march.
Do
not
givo
up
your
Bibles.
Ask
them
what
inudeltt-y
has
cvor
done
to
tlif
t
the
fourteen
hundred
millions
ot
the
racs
out
or
barbarism.
Ask
them
when
infidelity
ever
instituted
a
sanitary
commission,
and
before
you
leave
their
socioty
once
and
for-
»ver
tell
them
that
they
have
insulted
the
memory
of
your
Christian
father,
and
spit
upon
the
deathbed
of
your
mothor,
and
with
the
swine's
snout
rootod
up
tho
grave
ofyou
r
lister,
who
died
believing
in
the
Lord
Jesus.
If
these
people
scoff
at
you
as
though
re­
ligion
and
the
Bible
were
fit
only
for
weak-
minded
poooie,
you
]ust
toll
thorn
you
are
not
ashamed
to
bo
in
the
company
of
Burke,
the
statesman,
and
Raphael,
the
painter,
ind
Thorwaldson,
tho
sculptor,
and
Itozarfc,
the
musician,
and
Blackstone,
the
lawyer,
ind
Bacon,
tho
philosopher,
and
Harvey,
tho
physician,
and
John
Milton,
the
poet.
Youn
g
man,
hold
on
t
o
your
Bible.
It
is
tho
best
book
you
ever
owned.
It
will
toll
rou
how
to
dress,
how
to
bargain,
how
to
walk,
how
to
act.
how
to
live,
how
to
die.
Glorious
Biblol
Whether
on
parchment
or
paper,
in
octavo
or
duodecimo,
on
tho
center
table
of
the
drawing
room
or
in
tho
counting
room
of
the
banker.
Glorious
Bible
1
Light
to
our
feet
and
lamp
to
our
path.
Hold
on
to
it'
Tho
second
class
of
insidious
temptations
that
come
upon
our
young
mon
is
led
on
by
the
dishonest
employer.
Every
com­
mercial
establishment
is
a
school.
I
n
nine
cases
out
of
ten
the
principles
ot
tho
em­
ployer
becomes
the
principles
of
tho
em­
ployee.
I
ask
tho
older
merchants
to
bear
mo
out
in
thoso
statements.
If,
when
you
were
just
starting
in
life—in
commercial
lifo
—you
were
told
that
honesty
was
not
mar­
ketable;
that,
though
you
might
sell
all
the
goods
in
tho
shop,
you
must
not
sell
your
conscience,
that,
while
you
were
t
o
ex­
ercise
ail
inaustry
ana
tact,
you
were
not
to
soli
your
conscience;
if
you
wero
taught
that
gains
gotten
by
sin
were
combustible,
and
at
tho
moment
of
ignition
would
bo
blown
on
by
the
breath
of
God
until
all
tho
splendid
estate
would
vauish
into
white
ashes
scat­
tered
in
the
whirlwind,then
that
instruction
has
been
to
you
a
precaution
and
a
help
over
since.
There
aro
hundreds
of
commercial
estab­
lishments
in
our
groat
cities
which
aro
edu­
cating
a
class
of
young
men
who
will
bo
the
honor
of
tho
land,
and
there
are
other
estab­
lishments
which
aro
educating
young
mon
to
be
nothing
but
sharpers.
What
chance
is
there
for
a
young
man
who
was
taught
in
an
establishment
that
it
is
right
to
lie,
if
it
is
smart,
and
that
a
French
label
is
all
that
is
necessary
to
make
a
thing
French,
and
that
you
ought
always
to
bo
honest
when
it
pays,
ind
that
it
is
wrong
to
steal
unless
you
do
it
well?
Suppose,
now,
a
young
man
just
startine
In
life
enters
a
placo
of
that
kind
where
there
aro
ten
youug
men,
all
drillod
in
the
infamous
practices
of
tho
establishment.
H
e
is
ready
to
be
taught.
The
young
man
has
no
theory
of
commercial
ethics.
Whoro
is
he
to
get
his
theory?
Ho
will
get
the
theory
from
his
employers.
Ono
day
ho
pushes
bis
wits
a
little
beyond
what
this
establishment
demands
of
him,
and
he
fleeces
a
customer
until
tho
clerk
is
on
tho
verge
of
being
seized
by
tho
law.
\V
hat
is
done
in
tho
os-
eablishnieut?
Ho
is
not
arraigned.
Tho
bead
of
tho
ostablisment
says
to
him,
\N'ow
bo
careful,
be
careful,
youug
man,
yo
u
might
be
caught;
but
really
that
was
splon-
didly
douo,
you
will
get
along
in
tho
world,
I
warrant
you
•'
Then
that
young
man
goes
up
uutil
ho
becomes
head
clerk.
Ho
has
found
there
is
a
premium
on
iniquity.
Ouo
morning
the
omployor
comes
to
tho
establishment.
He
goes
into
his
counting
room
and
throws
up
his
hands
and
shouts.
\Why
tho
safo
has
been
robbed
1\
What
is
tho
matter?
Nothiug,
nothing;
only
tho
clerk
who
has
been
practicing
a
good
while
on
customers
is
practicing
a
little
on
tho
employer.
No
now
principlo
introduced
into
that
establishment.
It
is
a
poor
rulo
tliat
will
not
work
both
ways.
You
must
novor
steal
unless
you
can
do
i
t
well.
H
e
did
it
well.
I
a
m
not
talking
an
abstraction.
lam
talking
a
torriblo
and
crushing
fact.
Now
hero
is
a
young
man.
Look
at
him
to-day.
Look
at
him
flvo
years
from
now,
after
ho
has
been
under
trial
in
such
au
establishment.
Hero
he
stauds
in
the
shop
to-day,
his
cheeks
ruddy
«ith
tho
breath
of
tho
bills.
He
uurolls
tuo
goods
on
tho
coun­
ter
in
gentlemanly
style.
Ho
commcuds
them
to
tho
purchasor.
Ho
points
out
all
the
good
points
in
tho
fabric.
Ho
effects
the
sale.
The
goods
aro
wrappet
up,
aud
ho
dismisses
tho
customer
with
a
cheerful
\good
morning,\
and
tho
country
merchant
departs
so
impressed
with
the
straightfor­
wardness
of
tho
young
man
that
ho
will
come
again
aud
again,
evjry
spring
aud
every
autumn,
unless
interfered
with.
The
youug
man
has
beon
now
in
tiiat
es­
tablishment
five
years.
Ho
unrolls
tho
goods
on
tho
counter.
He
says
to
tho
customer,
\Now
theso
aro
the
best
goo
Is
wo
have
111
our
establishment
\
Thoy
havo
better
on
the
next
shelf
He
says,
\Wo
aro
soiling
those
goods
less
than
cost.\
They
aro
mak­
ing
twenty
per
cent.
Ho
says,
\Thero
is
nothing
like
them
in
all
the
city
\
Thero
are
fifty
shops
that
want
to
sell
the
sama
thing.
Ho
says,
\Now
that
is
a
durablo
article;
it
will
wash.\
Yes,
it
will
wash
out.
Tho
sale
is
made,
tho
goods
aro
wrapped
up,
the
country
merchant
goes
off
feeling
that
ho
has
an
equivalent
for
his
money,
and
tho
sharp
clerk
goes
into
tho
private
room
of
tho
counting
house,
and
ho
says:
\Well
I
got
rid
of
thoso
goods
at
Inst.
I
really
thought
wo
never
would
sell
thorn.
I
told
him
wo
woro
selling
thom
less
than
cost,
aud
ho
thought
he
was
gotting
a
goo.1
bargain.
Got
rid
of
thom
at
last.\
And
the
head
of
tho
firm
says.
'That's
well
done,
splendidly
dono!\
Moanwhilo
God
had
recorded
eight
lies—four
lios
against
tho
youug
man,
four
lies
against
his
employer,
for
I
undertake
to
say
that
the
omployer
is
responsible
for
all
tho
iniquities
of
his
clerks,
and
all
the
ini­
quities
of
those
who
are
clorks
of
theso
cierk=,
down
to
tho
tenth
generation,
if
those
employers
inculcated
iniquitous
and
damn
ing
principles.
I
stand
before
voting
m
«Mi
this
morning
who
are
under
fins
vr<!\urp.
I
say,
come
out
of
it.
\OhP
you
say,
\I
can't;
I
havo
my
widowed
mothor
to
support,
and
if
a
man
loses
a
situation
now
ho
can't
get
another
one
\
I
say,
come
out
of
it.
Go
home
to
your
mother
and
say
to
her,
\Mother
I
can't
stay
in
that
shop
and
bo
upright,
what
shall
I
do?\
and
it
she
is
worthy
of
you
sho
will
say,
\Como
out
of
it.
my
sou—we
will
just
throw
ourselves
on
Him
who
hath
prom­
ise
1
to
bo
tho
God
of
tho
widow
and
tho
fatherless;
Ho
will
take
care
of
us.\
Aud
I
tell
you
no
young
man
ever
permanently
suffered
by
such
a
courso
of
conduct.
In
Philadelphia,
in
a
drug
shop,
a
young
man
said
to
his
employer,
\I
want
to
pleaso
you,
really,
and
I
am
willing
to
sell
medicines
on
Sunday,
but
I
can't
sell
_thi3
patent
shoe
blacking
on
Sunday.'
\Well
said
the
head
man,\\you
will
havo
t
o
do
it,
or
else
you
will
have
to
go
away.\
The
young
man
said,
\I
can't
do
it;
I
am
willing
tr>
sell
moiiclnes,
but
not
shoo
blacking\
\Well
then,
go!
Go
now.\
Tho
young
man
went
away
Tho
Lord
looked
alter
him.
The
hundreds
of
thousands
of
dollars
he
won
in
this
world
wero
the
smallest
part
ol
his
fortune.
God
honored
him.
By
the
course
he
took
he
saved
his
soul
as
well
as
his
fortuues
in
the
future.
A
man
said
to
his
employer,
\I
can't
wash
the
wagon
on
Sunday
morning,
1
a
m
willing
to
wash
it
on
Saturday
afternoon,
but,
sir,
you
will
please
excuse
me,
I
can'c
wash
the
wagon
on
Sunday
morning.\
His
employer
said,
\You
must
wasr
it,
my
carriage
comes
in
every
Suturday
ni
0
ht,
and
you
havo
got
to
wnsh
it
on
Sunday
rooming
\
\I
can't
do
it,\
the
man
said.
They
parted.
Tho
Lord
looked
after
him—grandly
looked
after
him.
He
is
worth
to-dav
a
hundro
I
fold
moro
than
his
employer
ever
was
or
ever
will
be,
and
ho
saved
his
soul
Young
men.
It
is
safe
to
do
right.
Thero
aro
young
men
in
this
house
to-day
who,
under
this
ston
i
of
temptation,
are
striking
deeper
and
deep­
er
the
r
roots
aud
spreading
out
broader
their
branches.
They
aro
Daniels
in
Baby-
Ion,
tney
aro
Josephs
iu
the
Esyptian
court,
thoy
are
Pauls
amid
tho
wild
beasts
oZ
Ephesus.
I
preach
to
encourngo
thom.
Lay
hold
of
God
and
be
faithful.
There
is
a
mistake
we
mako
about
young
men.
Wo
put
them
in
two
cias303;
tho
one
class
is
moral,
tho
other
dls-nluto.
Tho
moral
aro
safe.
The
dissolute
£innot
be
re­
claimed.
I
deny
both
propositions.
Tho
moral
are
not
safe
unless
tboy
havo
laid
bold
of
God,
and
tho
dissoiut3
may
be
reclaimed.
I
suppose
thero
are
self
righteous
men
in
this
Eouso
wno
fool
no
need
of
God,
and
will
not
seek
alter
Him,
and
they
will
go
out
in
tho
world,
and
they
will
be
tempted.and
they
will
bs
flung
down
by
misfortune,
and
they
will
g
o
down,
down,
down,
until
somo
night
you
will
seo
thom
going
homo
hooting,
raving,
shouting
bias-
E
hemy
—going
home
to
their
mother,
going
omo
to
their
sister,
going
homo
t
o
the
young
companion
to
whom,
only
a
Httlo
while
ago,
in
tho
presence
ot
a
brilliant
assemblage,
flashing
lights
and
orange
blossoms,
and
censers
swinging
in
tho
air,
thoy
promised
fidelity
and
purity,
and
Kindness
perpetual.
As
that
man
reaches
the
door,
she
will
open
it,
not
with
an
outcry,
but
she
will
stagger
back
lrom
tho
door
as
bo
comes
in,
and
in
her
look
there
will
bo
tho
projphecy
ot
woes
that
ore
coming,
wont
that
will
shiver
in
need
ot
Are,
hunger
that
will
cr
y
in
vain
for
bread,
cruelties
that
will
not
leave
tho
heart
when
they
have
crushed
it,
but
pinch
it
again
and
stab
i
t
again,
until
somo
night
she
will
open
the
door
of
the
placo
where
her
companion
was
ruined,
and
she
will
fling
out
her
arm
from
uuder
ber
ragged
shawl
and
say,
with
al­
most
omnipotent
eloquence:
\Give
me
back
my
husband!
Give
me
back
m
y
protector
I
Give
mo
back
m
y
all!
Hi
m
of
the
kind
heart
and
gentle
words
and
tho
manly
brow,
give
him
back
to
mo!\
An
d
then
the
wretches,
obese
and
filthy,
will
push
back
their
matted
locks
and
thoy
will
say.
\Pu
t
her
out
1
Put
her
outI\
Oh!
self-righteous
man,
without
God
you
aro
in
peril.
Seek
after
Him
to-day.
Amid
tho
ton
thousands
temptations
of
lifo
thero
is
no
safety
for
a
man
without
God.
But
I
may
bo
addressing
some
who
have
gono
astray,
and
so
I
assault
that
other
proposition
that
tho
dissolute
cannot
be
re­
claimed.
Perhaps
you
have
only
gono
a
little
astray.
While
I
speak
are
you
troubled?
Is
thero
a
voice
within
you
say­
ing:
\What
did
you
do
that
for?
Why
did
you
go
there?
What
did
you
mean
by
that?\
Is
thero
a
memory
in
your
soul
that
makes
you
tremble?
God
only
knows
all
our
hearts.
Yoa,
if
you
havo
gono
so
far
as
to
commit
iniquities
and
have
gono
through
the
whole
catalogue,
I
invito
you
back
this
hour.
The
Lord
waits
for
you.
\Rejoice!
O
young
man
in
thy
youth,
and
lot
thy
heart
cheer
thee
iu
the
davs
of
thy
youth,
but
know
thou
that
for
all
thoso
things
God
will
bring
thee
into
judgment.\
Come
home,
young
man,
to
your
father's
God.
Como
home,
young
man,
to
your
mother's
God.
Oh
I
I
wish
that
all
the
bat­
teries
of
the
Gospel
could
to-day
be
unlini-
berod
against
all
thoso
influences
which
are
taking
down
so
many
of
our
young
mon.
I
would
liko
to
blow
a
trumpet
of
warning,
and
recruit
until
this
whole
audience
would
march
out
on
a
crusade
against
tho
ovils
of
society.
But
let
none
of
us
be
disheartened.
Oh,
Christian
workers,
m
y
hoart
is
high
with
hope.
Tho
dark
horizon
is
blooming
into
the
morning
of
which
prophets
spoke,
and
of
which
poets
have
dreamed,
and
ot
which
painters
havo
sketched.
Tho
world's
bridal
hour
advances.
Tho
mountains
will
kiss
tho
morning
radiant
and
effulgent,
and
all
the
waves
of
the
sea
will
become
the
crystal
keys
of
a
great
organ,
on
which
the
fingers
of
everlasting
joy
shall
play
the
grand
march
of
a
world
redeemed.
Instead
of
the
thorn
there
shall
come
up
the
fir
tree,
and
instead
of
tho
briar
thero
shall
come
up
the'
myrtle
tree,
and
the
mountains
and
tbo
hills
shall
broak
forth
into
singing,
and
all
the
tress
of
the
wood
shall
clap
their
hands.
TEMPERAN'CE
XEWS
AND
NOTES.
Mr.
Spurgeou
signed
tho
abstinence
pledge
Sn
1800.
If
those
who
aro
searching
after
a
\sure
cure
for
drunkenness\
would
quit
drinking
while
they
aro
looking
for
it
they
would
find
it.
Dr
Norman
Kerr
says-
\Total
absti­
nence
is
the
surest
way,
all
other
things
be­
ing
equal,
of
attainiug
the
highest
physical,
mental,
moral
aud
every
other
kind
of
health
\
Tho
Rev
Sam
Jones
says
\I
understand
that
by
actual
mathematics
it
has
been
shown
that
we
(tho
Americans)
send
to
tho
heathen
countries
13.000
barrels
of
whisky
to
one
missionary
Tho
devil
doson't
care
how
many
missionaries
you
send,
if
yousend
that
amouut
of
whisky
along
with
them.\
J
W
Burns,
of
Glasgow,
with
the
largest
model
lodging
house
in
tho
world,
and
also
the
superintendent
of
another
Glasgow
model
lodging,
says
that
almost
every
case
ho
had
come
across
of
men
who
had
fallen
from
good
positions
to
inhabit
tho
lodging
houso
was
caused
by
drink,
aud
if
the
public
houses
woro
only
closed
tho
homes
might
ho
closed
too,
or
there
would
soon
be
but
little
need
for
tbem.
Tho
undergraduates
of
Cambridge,
Eng­
land,
havo
taken
to
drinking
tea
after
din­
ner
instead
of
wine
But
though
novel
at
Cambridge,
this
practice
has
been
in
vogue
at
Oxford
lor
sevonty
years,
tho
innovation
having
been
brought
about
by
Newman
and
Fronde,
even
then
famous,
who
induced
most
of
the
other
Fellows
of
Oriel
to
givo
up
wine
in
tho
common
room
after
dinner
and
substitute
tea
D,
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Brundage
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REY. DR. TALMAGE TEMPTATIONS BESETTING- YOTJNGr MEN. \Tie Sunday Sermon as Delivered, b y the Brooklyn Divine. Text: \Surelu in, vain the net is spreaa .inthc sight of any bird.\ —Proverbs i., 17. I Early in the morning I went out with a fowler to catch wild pigeons. We haste nod •through the mountain gorge and into the forest. \We spread out tho net, and covered <ip the edges of it as well as wo could. W e arranged tho call bird, its feet fast and ita wings flapping, in invitation to all fowls of heaven to settle down there. We rotirod into a booth of branches and leaves and waited. After awhile, looking out of tho door of tho booth, we saw a flock of birds in the sky. Tboy enmo nearer and nearer, and after a •while were about t o swoop into the net, when suddenly tlioy darted away. Again we waited. After awhile we saw another flock of birds. They came nearer and nearer un­ til just at tho moment when they woro about to swoop they darted away The fowler was very much disappointed as well as myself. Wo said to each other, \Wha t is the matter?\ and \Why were not these birds caught?\ We wont out and ex­ amined the net and by a flutter of a branch of a tree part of tho not had been conspicu­ ously exposed, and tho birds foming very near had seen their peril and darted away. When I saw that I said to the old fowler, •\That reminds me of a passage of Scripture: 'Surely in vain is tho not spread in the sight of any bird.'\ Now the net in m y text stands for temptation. Tho call bird of sin tempts men on from point to point and from branch to branch until they are about to drop into tho net. If a man Dnds out in time that it is tho temptation of tho devil, or that evil men are attempting to capture his soul for timo ond for eternity, tho man steps back. H e suys. \1 am not t o bo caught in that way; I see what you are about; surely in vaiu is the net spread in the sight of any bird \ There are two classes of temptations—the OTperflcial and the subterraneous—those above, ground, those underground. I f a man could see sin as it is, ho would no moro om- braco it than he would embrace a lepsr Sin is a daughter of hell, ye t she is gar­ landed and robed and trinketed. Her voico is a wnrble. Her cheek is the setting sun Her forehead is an aurora Sho says to tnen: \Come wnllc this path with me. It is thymed and primroscd, and the air is be- witchol with tho odors of the hanging gar­ dens of huaveu. Tuo rivers aro riveri of wine, and all you have to do is t o drink them up in chalices that sparkle with dia­ mond and amethyst and chrysoprasus. Seo' I t is all bloum aud rosate cloud and heaven.\ Oh, m y friend*, if for one moment the choiring of nil these concerted voices of sin could he hushed, we should see the orchestra ot the pit with hot breath blowing through fiery flute, and tho skeleton arms on drums of tiiunder and darkness boating the chorus, \Tho end thereof is death.\ I want to point out the insidious tempta­ tions that uiv assailing moro especially our young men. The only kind ot nature com­ paratively free from temptatioD, so far as I enn judge, is tin* cold, hard, stingy, mean tempi raiucut. \\ hat would Satan do with such a muii if he got him? Satan is not anx­ ious to get a man who after awhile may dis­ pute with him the realm of everlusting meanness. It is tho generous young man, tho ardent young man. the warm hearted young ninn, %bc social young man that is in especial peril. A pirate goes out on tho sea, and one bright morning he puts the glass to his eyo ana looks oir, and sees an onipty vessel float­ ing from port to port. Ho says, \Never mind, that's no prize for us.\ But the samo morning ho puts tho glass to his oye, and he sees a vessel coming from Australia lailon -with gold, or a vessel from tho Indies lailon with spices. He says, \That's our prize, bear down on it I\ Across that unfortunate Ehip tho grappling hooks aro thrown. Tho crow are blindfolded and are compollcd to walk the piank it s not tho empty vessel, but the laden •merchantman tl.at is the temptati m of tho pirate. And a young mnu einpty of head, empty of heart, empty of life— y«»u want no Youn g Men's Christian Association to keep bim safo ho is safe. H o w .ll not gamlilo unless it is with somebody clso's stakes. Ho will not Lrcak tho Sabbath unless somoho ly else pays the horse hire. He \\ ill not drink un­ less somo one elso treats htm. Ho will hang arouud tho bar hour after hour waiting for some gonerous young man to como in Ttio generous young man comes in and accosts him ond says, \Well will you have a drink with mo to-daj '-\ The man.as though it were a sudden thing for him, says, ' Well —well, if you insist on it, I will—I will.\ Too mean to go to porditiou unless some­ body else pays Ins expense*? For such young men w o will not light. We would no more contend for them than Tartar}' and Ethiopia would fight as to who should uavo the great Sahara desert, but for those young men who aro buoyant and enthusiastic, those who are determined to do something for time and for eternity—for them wo will fight, and wo now deciare everlasting war against all the influences that assail tho:n, and we ask all goo I men and philanthropists to wheel into lino, and all tho armies of heaven to bear down upon the foe, and wo pi-ay Almighty God that with tho thunder­ bolts of Ills wrath Ho will strike down an I consume all these influences that aro attempt­ ing to destroy the youug men for whom Christ died. The first cla?s of temptations that assaults »young man is Jed on by the skeptic. H9 A 'lll not admit that he is an infidel or athe­ ist. Oh, no! lie is a \free thinker - \ he is ono jf your \iiuura.\ mon; ho is freo and easy In religion Oh. how lilieral he is, ho is so \liberal\ that ho will give away his Bible; ho is so \liberal\ tha t ho will give away the throne of eternal justice, he is so \liberal\ that ho would l« willing to give God out of !iie universe, hois so \liberal\ that ho would jive up his own soul ond tho souls of all his friends. Now what more could you ask in tho way of liberality? 1 ho victim of this skeptic has probably just co.no from ti o country. Through tho intervention of friends l c litis been placed in a shop. On Saturday the skeptic says to him, \Well wnat are ynu going to do to-mor­ row?' Ho says, \1 am going to church.\ \Is it possible?\ says tho skoplic. \Well I asiM to do those things, I was brought up, I suppose, as you were, m a religious family, and I believd all those things, but I got over it. the fact is, sinco I came to town I have read a great den', and I have found that thu-o are a gr --at many things in tho Bible that are r.d.culous. Now, for in­ stance, all that about tho serpent being cursed to cr .iwl in tho Garden of Eden be­ cause it had tempted our first parents, why, you see how nbsunl it i3, you can tell from the very organization of tho serpent that it tad to crawl, it crawled before it wascursod just as well as i t crawled afterward; you can tell from its organization that it •crawled Then all that story about the wbalo swallowing Jonah, or Jonah swal­ lowing tho whale, which was it? I t don 't make any difference, the thing is absurd; it is ridiculouB to suppose that a man could nave gono down through tno jaws of a sea monster and yot keep his life; why, his res­ piration would have been hindered; ho would have been digested, the gastric juicj would havo dissolved tho flbrine and coagu lated albumen, and Jonah would havo beer changed from prophet into chyle. Then all that story about tho micraculous conception —why, it is perfectly disCTacef ul Oh, sir' I believe in the light of nature. This is the Nineteenth century Progress, sir, progress. I don 't blame you,\ but after you have been i n town as tongas 1 havo you will think jest •as I do.\ Thousands of young men nro going down under that pro*»«v,x d>iy bv day. and th^ro is •only here and tliwe n vounr man who ctn endure this artillery of scorn. They nro giv­ ing up their Bible,. Tho lirht of nature Tney Uavo tho light ot nature in Cliina; they havo it in Hindostan; they havo it in Cey­ lon. Flowers there, stars there, waters there, winds there, but no civilization, no homes, -no happiness. Lancets t o cut ond jugger ­ nauts to fall under and hooks to swing on, but no happiness. I tell you, my young brother, wo have to take a religion or some kind. We have to choose between four and five. Shall it be tho Koran of the Mohammedan, or tho Shos- •tcr of tho Hindoo. o*r tho Zendavesta of tho rorsian, or tho Confucius writings of tho 'Chinese, or tho Holy Scripturos? Tnko what you will: God helping me, I will take the Bible. Light for all darkness; rock for all 'foundation, balm for all\ wounds. A glory • that lifts its pillars of Are over tho wilder­ ness march. Do not givo up your Bibles. Ask them what inudeltt-y has cvor done to tlif t the fourteen hundred millions ot the racs out or barbarism. Ask them when infidelity ever instituted a sanitary commission, and before you leave their socioty once and for- »ver tell them that they have insulted the memory of your Christian father, and spit upon the deathbed of your mothor, and with the swine's snout rootod up tho grave ofyou r lister, who died believing in the Lord Jesus. If these people scoff at you as though re­ ligion and the Bible were fit only for weak- minded poooie, you ]ust toll thorn you are not ashamed to bo in the company of Burke, the statesman, and Raphael, the painter, ind Thorwaldson, tho sculptor, and Itozarfc, the musician, and Blackstone, the lawyer, ind Bacon, tho philosopher, and Harvey, tho physician, and John Milton, the poet. Youn g man, hold on t o your Bible. It is tho best book you ever owned. It will toll rou how to dress, how to bargain, how to walk, how to act. how to live, how to die. Glorious Biblol Whether on parchment or paper, in octavo or duodecimo, on tho center table of the drawing room or in tho counting room of the banker. Glorious Bible 1 Light to our feet and lamp to our path. Hold on to it' Tho second class of insidious temptations that come upon our young mon is led on by the dishonest employer. Every com­ mercial establishment is a school. I n nine cases out of ten the principles ot tho em­ ployer becomes the principles of tho em­ ployee. I ask tho older merchants to bear mo out in thoso statements. If, when you were just starting in life—in commercial lifo —you were told that honesty was not mar­ ketable; that, though you might sell all the goods in tho shop, you must not sell your conscience, that, while you were t o ex­ ercise ail inaustry ana tact, you were not to soli your conscience; if you wero taught that gains gotten by sin were combustible, and at tho moment of ignition would bo blown on by the breath of God until all tho splendid estate would vauish into white ashes scat­ tered in the whirlwind,then that instruction has been to you a precaution and a help over since. There aro hundreds of commercial estab­ lishments in our groat cities which aro edu­ cating a class of young men who will bo the honor of tho land, and there are other estab­ lishments which aro educating young mon to be nothing but sharpers. What chance is there for a young man who was taught in an establishment that it is right to lie, if it is smart, and that a French label is all that is necessary to make a thing French, and that you ought always to bo honest when it pays, ind that it is wrong to steal unless you do it well? Suppose, now, a young man just startine In life enters a placo of that kind where there aro ten youug men, all drillod in the infamous practices of tho establishment. H e is ready to be taught. The young man has no theory of commercial ethics. Whoro is he to get his theory? Ho will get the theory from his employers. Ono day ho pushes bis wits a little beyond what this establishment demands of him, and he fleeces a customer until tho clerk is on tho verge of being seized by tho law. \V hat is done in tho os- eablishnieut? Ho is not arraigned. Tho bead of tho ostablisment says to him, \N'ow bo careful, be careful, youug man, yo u might be caught; but really that was splon- didly douo, you will get along in tho world, I warrant you •' Then that young man goes up uutil ho becomes head clerk. Ho has found there is a premium on iniquity. Ouo morning the omployor comes to tho establishment. He goes into his counting room and throws up his hands and shouts. \Why tho safo has been robbed 1\ What is tho matter? Nothiug, nothing; only tho clerk who has been practicing a good while on customers is practicing a little on tho employer. No now principlo introduced into that establishment. It is a poor rulo tliat will not work both ways. You must novor steal unless you can do i t well. H e did it well. I a m not talking an abstraction. lam talking a torriblo and crushing fact. Now hero is a young man. Look at him to-day. Look at him flvo years from now, after ho has been under trial in such au establishment. Hero he stauds in the shop to-day, his cheeks ruddy «ith tho breath of tho bills. He uurolls tuo goods on tho coun­ ter in gentlemanly style. Ho commcuds them to tho purchasor. Ho points out all the good points in tho fabric. Ho effects the sale. The goods aro wrappet up, aud ho dismisses tho customer with a cheerful \good morning,\ and tho country merchant departs so impressed with the straightfor­ wardness of tho young man that ho will come again aud again, evjry spring aud every autumn, unless interfered with. The youug man has beon now in tiiat es­ tablishment five years. Ho unrolls tho goods on tho counter. He says to tho customer, \Now theso aro the best goo Is wo have 111 our establishment \ Thoy havo better on the next shelf He says, \Wo aro soiling those goods less than cost.\ They aro mak­ ing twenty per cent. Ho says, \Thero is nothing like them in all the city \ Thero are fifty shops that want to sell the sama thing. Ho says, \Now that is a durablo article; it will wash.\ Yes, it will wash out. Tho sale is made, tho goods aro wrapped up, the country merchant goes off feeling that ho has an equivalent for his money, and tho sharp clerk goes into tho private room of tho counting house, and ho says: \Well I got rid of thoso goods at Inst. I really thought wo never would sell thorn. I told him wo woro selling thom less than cost, aud ho thought he was gotting a goo.1 bargain. Got rid of thom at last.\ And the head of tho firm says. 'That's well done, splendidly dono!\ Moanwhilo God had recorded eight lies—four lios against tho youug man, four lies against his employer, for I undertake to say that the omployer is responsible for all tho iniquities of his clerks, and all the ini­ quities of those who are clorks of theso cierk=, down to tho tenth generation, if those employers inculcated iniquitous and damn ing principles. I stand before voting m «Mi this morning who are under fins vr<!\urp. I say, come out of it. \OhP you say, \I can't; I havo my widowed mothor to support, and if a man loses a situation now ho can't get another one \ I say, come out of it. Go home to your mother and say to her, \Mother I can't stay in that shop and bo upright, what shall I do?\ and it she is worthy of you sho will say, \Como out of it. my sou—we will just throw ourselves on Him who hath prom­ ise 1 to bo tho God of tho widow and tho fatherless; Ho will take care of us.\ Aud I tell you no young man ever permanently suffered by such a courso of conduct. In Philadelphia, in a drug shop, a young man said to his employer, \I want to pleaso you, really, and I am willing to sell medicines on Sunday, but I can't sell _thi3 patent shoe blacking on Sunday.' \Well said the head man,\\you will havo t o do it, or else you will have to go away.\ The young man said, \I can't do it; I am willing tr> sell moiiclnes, but not shoo blacking\ \Well then, go! Go now.\ Tho young man went away Tho Lord looked alter him. The hundreds of thousands of dollars he won in this world wero the smallest part ol his fortune. God honored him. By the course he took he saved his soul as well as his fortuues in the future. A man said to his employer, \I can't wash the wagon on Sunday morning, 1 a m willing to wash it on Saturday afternoon, but, sir, you will please excuse me, I can'c wash the wagon on Sunday morning.\ His employer said, \You must wasr it, my carriage comes in every Suturday ni 0 ht, and you havo got to wnsh it on Sunday rooming \ \I can't do it,\ the man said. They parted. Tho Lord looked after him—grandly looked after him. He is worth to-dav a hundro I fold moro than his employer ever was or ever will be, and ho saved his soul Young men. It is safe to do right. Thero aro young men in this house to-day who, under this ston i of temptation, are striking deeper and deep­ er the r roots aud spreading out broader their branches. They aro Daniels in Baby- Ion, tney aro Josephs iu the Esyptian court, thoy are Pauls amid tho wild beasts oZ Ephesus. I preach to encourngo thom. Lay hold of God and be faithful. There is a mistake we mako about young men. Wo put them in two cias303; tho one class is moral, tho other dls-nluto. Tho moral aro safe. The dissolute £innot be re­ claimed. I deny both propositions. Tho moral are not safe unless tboy havo laid bold of God, and tho dissoiut3 may be reclaimed. I suppose thero are self righteous men in this Eouso wno fool no need of God, and will not seek alter Him, and they will go out in tho world, and they will be tempted.and they will bs flung down by misfortune, and they will g o down, down, down, until somo night you will seo thom going homo hooting, raving, shouting bias- E hemy —going home to their mother, going omo to their sister, going homo t o the young companion to whom, only a Httlo while ago, in tho presence ot a brilliant assemblage, flashing lights and orange blossoms, and censers swinging in tho air, thoy promised fidelity and purity, and Kindness perpetual. As that man reaches the door, she will open it, not with an outcry, but she will stagger back lrom tho door as bo comes in, and in her look there will bo tho projphecy ot woes that ore coming, wont that will shiver in need ot Are, hunger that will cr y in vain for bread, cruelties that will not leave tho heart when they have crushed it, but pinch it again and stab i t again, until somo night she will open the door of the placo where her companion was ruined, and she will fling out her arm from uuder ber ragged shawl and say, with al­ most omnipotent eloquence: \Give me back my husband! Give me back m y protector I Give mo back m y all! Hi m of the kind heart and gentle words and tho manly brow, give him back to mo!\ An d then the wretches, obese and filthy, will push back their matted locks and thoy will say. \Pu t her out 1 Put her outI\ Oh! self-righteous man, without God you aro in peril. Seek after Him to-day. Amid tho ton thousands temptations of lifo thero is no safety for a man without God. But I may bo addressing some who have gono astray, and so I assault that other proposition that tho dissolute cannot be re­ claimed. Perhaps you have only gono a little astray. While I speak are you troubled? Is thero a voice within you say­ ing: \What did you do that for? Why did you go there? What did you mean by that?\ Is thero a memory in your soul that makes you tremble? God only knows all our hearts. Yoa, if you havo gono so far as to commit iniquities and have gono through the whole catalogue, I invito you back this hour. The Lord waits for you. \Rejoice! O young man in thy youth, and lot thy heart cheer thee iu the davs of thy youth, but know thou that for all thoso things God will bring thee into judgment.\ Come home, young man, to your father's God. Como home, young man, to your mother's God. Oh I I wish that all the bat­ teries of the Gospel could to-day be unlini- berod against all thoso influences which are taking down so many of our young mon. I would liko to blow a trumpet of warning, and recruit until this whole audience would march out on a crusade against tho ovils of society. But let none of us be disheartened. Oh, Christian workers, m y hoart is high with hope. Tho dark horizon is blooming into the morning of which prophets spoke, and of which poets have dreamed, and ot which painters havo sketched. Tho world's bridal hour advances. Tho mountains will kiss tho morning radiant and effulgent, and all the waves of the sea will become the crystal keys of a great organ, on which the fingers of everlasting joy shall play the grand march of a world redeemed. 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